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The exhibition Knockin on Heaven s Door at the Kunstmuseum in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, explores contemporary artistic representations of body/soul, body/mind, matter/consciousness. On display are works by Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Absalon, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Beuys, Andrea Fraser, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dan Graham, Kimsooja, Korpys/L ffler, Thomas Lehnerer, Matt Mullican, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Kristine O wald, and Gina Pane. In this video curator Christiane Meyer-Stoll talks the concept of the show.

Currently on show at K3 Project Space in Z rich / Switzerland is Loose Booty . Loose Booty presents a wide variety of works made mostly from material borrowed or simply taken in order to create the new. The curators, Jeff McMillan and Pascal Rousson, invited three other artists and and artist duo to participate in the exhibition: Alexandre Bianchini, Sylvie Rodriguez, Guy Sherwin, Eileen Simpson & Ben White (Open Music Archive). Interview with Jeff McMillan, September 27, 2008.

Liam Gillick s exhibition Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario* Work 1988 - 2008 Mirrored Image: A Volvo bar at Kunstverein M nchen is the third act of the large mid-career retrospective, that the four institutions Witte de With, Kunsthalle Z rich, Kunstverein M nchen and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago conceived. In this video by G rsoy Dogtas, Liam Gillick talks about his retrospective and the exhibition at Kunstverein M nchen. Opening, September 26, 2008.

On Friday, September 26, 2008, the Arlington Arts Center held a discussion to supplement the currently showing Picturing Politics 2008, an exhibit which explores the relationship between contemporary art and politics. Director of Exhibitions Jeffry Cudlin moderates a panel that includes: Rex Weil, Curator of the Exhibit Kriston Capps, arts writer for Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, Art Papers, and countless other publications including his own influential arts blog, Grammarpolice. Welmoed Laanstra, public art projects curator for Arlington. As an independent curator, Laanstra is known for the Found Sound and Street Scenes public art projects she organized in Washington, D.C. Josh Shannon, professor of contemporary art history and theory at the University of Maryland, College Park. His book, The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City, 1960, will be published by Yale University Press in Spring, 2009. Topics discussed: What s the difference between political expression out in the world and inside the gallery environment? Is political speech in the gallery protected? Does it have teeth, or does it exist simply to be consumed or marginalized? How does contemporary art speak to pop culture and to the media and vice-versa?

Every year the Palais de Tokyo gives an artist carte blanche. After Ugo Rondinone in 2007, this year Jeremy Deller was free to devise and stage an exhibition at the renowned contemporary art space in Paris, France. Jeremy Deller (born 1966) lives and works in London. In 2004 he was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize. The Folk Archive , which assembles British folklore items and documents such as customized motorbike helmets or banners from demonstrations, is the starting point for his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, D une r volution l autre (From one revolution to another).

In the second part of our Vincent Tavenne tour we attend the openings of the exhibitions at Caf Scholz, the city hall of Stuttgart and the Hospitalhof Stuttgart. While Upstairs at Caf Scholz presents smaller works by Vincent Tavenne, larger sculptures are on display at City Hall Stuttgart and Hospitalhof. One of the highlights is certainly Tavenne s installation in the tower gallery of the Hospitalhof, a sculpture that fills the entire stairway.More info.

ArteBregaglia, the art course from Maloja to Chiavenna, brought 13 artists to the Bergell, creating works that react to the special historical, cultural and political conditions of this region. In the second part of our trip we have a look at the works of Piero del Bondio, Simone Zaugg, Ariane Epars, Olaf Nicolai, Luigi Serafini, Remy Markowitsch, Bethan Huws, and Roman Signer.

ArteBregaglia is an art project that brings contemporary art to the Bergell, a valley situated on the driving route from Milan in Italy to St. Moritz in Switzerland. For ArteBregaglia 13 artists have been visiting and exploring the Bergell. In this video - the first part of our tour - we have a look at the works of Ursula Palla, Michael G nzburger, Pfelder, Chiara Dynys, Patricia Jegher. ArteBregaglia, An art course from Maloja to Chiavenna July 5 September 21 2008. September 9, 2008. Part 1/2. More info.

From the 4th until the 7th September 2008, kicking off the season, ABC Art Berlin Contemporary presented a survey show for contemporary art in Berlin. 41 Berlin galleries such as Arndt & Partner, Contemporary Fine Arts, Johnen Galerie, Zak | Branicka participated in this sales show which combined openings at the galleries as well as a large-scale exhibition in the halls of the former Postbahnhof at Gleisdreieck in Berlin Kreuzberg. Lizza May David went to the fair on the 4th September and attended the opening for us. More info.

Chiara Dynys (born 1958 in Mantova, lives and works in Milan, Italy) works in the fields of installation, photography and sculpture. For ArteBregaglia, the art project in the Bergell valley, Chiara Dynys chose the Church of San Gaudenzio at Casaccia as location. The words bellezza and sobriet , written in Gothic letters, emphasize the valley s polar identity between sobriety and beauty. At night, the letters are illuminated. More info.

The Ch teau de Versailles presents the exhibition Jeff Koons Versailles in the Royal Apartments and in the gardens of the Castle. The show presents seventeen Jeff Koons works, including his most significant works from the Eighties to these days. In this video: impressions from the press preview with statements by Jeff Koons. The exhibition runs until December 14, 2008. Versailles / France, September 10, 2008. Video by Christophe Ecoffet. More info.

In Swiss artist Ueli Etter's show "THE PARK and The Spirit of de Grisogono 1" at the gallery Hubert B chler in Zurich, Switzerland, the largest cut black diamond plays a key role: In Ueli Etter's illustrated fiction, the precious stone has become the fetish of a society who's main institution is a court - the Identity Court. In this conversation with Sabine Triefloff, Ueli Etter talks about his project "THE PARK" which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. More info.

Nice location to show photographer David LaChapelle s series Jesus is my Homeboy : The Protestant French Church in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The exhibition was part of the St. Moritz Art Masters Walk of Art . David LaChapelle (born in 1963 in Fairfield, Connecticut) works in the fields of fashion, advertising and fine art photography. More info.

This is the last episode on Manifesta 7, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art with views of works by Didier Fiuza Faustino, Heide Hinrichs, Luca Trevisani, Nico Vascellari, Nina Canell, and Pamela Rosenkranz. Manifesta 7 runs until the 2nd November 2008. Still enough time to visit the Trentino South Tyrol! More info.

Halina Jaworski shows her "shaped canvas" and "ancestor series" in the city gallery "Arsena " in Pozna , Poland. More info.

The St. Moritz Art Masters Walk of Art was inaugurated with a cocktail reception at Galerie Gmurzynska St. Moritz. Currently, the gallery shows the exhibition Modern . On display are works by, among others, Robert Indiana, Fernando Botero, Yves Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, and Henri Matisse. More info.

Some fun for the weekend: Installed in the courtyard of the Manifattura Tabacchi in Rovereto, Italy (one of the locations of Manifesta 7), is a sculpture by Ricardo Jacinto, made of six gigantic black balloons, filled with helium. As the video shows, not only children have fun with the device that is diminishing one's weight by about 35kg and lifts up peoples bodies and spirits. The installation is called "Labyrinthitis". More info.

On the second day of the St. Moritz Art Masters (the event runs until 6th September 2008) we went up a mountain with a group of journalists, gallerists, pr people and museum directors (Sam Keller was a bit late) to attend Christina Oiticica's performance "Burying of Art". Don't worry: She didn't bury art as such but some of her own works, and she will exhume them next year. More info.

We attend the Season Opening of the galleries in Zurich, Switzerland, and interview the artists Sabina Baumann and Edit Oderbolz. August 27, 2008. More info.

As part of the first edition of the St. Moritz Art Masters (SAM), there s an exhibition with sculptures of Frank Stella s Bali and Scarlatti Series (Courtesy Ficher Rohr Gallery, Basel). In this video, Prof. Dr. Franz-Joachim Verspohl provides us with a short introduction to Frank Stella s latest works. More info.

Agnes B takes over Hong Kong! It is official, Agnes B does everything! Restaurants, fashion, flowers, travel accessories, home furnishings and now an art gallery. Along with Ready Made Magazine they launched an imaginative art exhibit where you have to squeeze through a little door and then enter into a large room to give the impression of emmensity. Agnes B will rotate the installations approximately every 3 - 4 months so check back regularly. http://www.so-u.tv/playVideo.php?contestid=&id=4229

Interview with Aleksander Komarov on the occasion of his exhibition at the Kunsthalle Winterthur. More info.

One of the videos shown at the fortress in Fortezza / Franzensfeste as part of the exhibition Scenarios , is Michael Snow s 1982 film So Is This . Michael Snow (born 1929) is a Canadian artist who works in various media such as painting, sculpture, photography and film. The film So Is This (16mm, b&w, silent, 45 minutes) is a text in which each shot is a single word. This episode shows a short excerpt from the film. More info.

Nato Thompson The Art Gallery of Knoxville Wednesday, February 15Nato Thompson is a writer, activist, and curator at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. The MASS MoCA describes itself as an open platform, a welcoming place that encourages dynamic interchange between making and presenting art, between the visual and performing arts, and between our extraordinary historic factory campus and the patrons, workers and tenants who again inhabit it. Nato is a co-organizor at the Department of Space and Land Reclamation and strong believer in radical practice. His writings on art and politics have been published in Parkett, New Art Examiner, the College Art Association Art Journal and In These Times. He is also contributing writer to the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest.

Untitled (film 4) (2007). 16mm film, 2.29 min. Colour/sound Courtesy BQ, Cologne

Adriana Cavarero (born 1947) is a feminist philosopher who lives and works in Verona. She currently is professor of political philosophy at the University of Verona. Her work for the Manifesta 7 exhibition in Fortezza / Franzensfeste consists of a dialogue between Plato s Cave Analogy and herself. She updates the classical text with the audio architecture of the fortress. More info.

In this episode, we attend the pre-opening of Jutta Koether s exhibition at Galerie Francesca Pia in Zurich, Switzerland. Jutta Koether is an artist as well as a musician, a writer, a theorist, and an art critic. Jutta Koether is a member of the artist collective Reena Spaulings and regularly collaborates with musicians such as Tom Verlaine (Television) or Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth). More info.

David Shrigley is an artist who works with various media: animations, drawings, sculptures, photographs. He is known for his cartoons released in softcover books and animations. At the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, he presents monotypes, prints made in a single copy. Unlike his black-and-white drawings with their comic strip aesthetic, the monotypes on display at the Museum Ludwig are very colorful, but they show the same bizarre and morbid humor. More info.

In part 2 of our visit to Manifesta 7's art exhibition in Trento, we have a look at works by Roee Rosen, Joachim Koester, Andr e Korpys ffler, Eyal Sivan, Beth Campbell, Barbara Visser, Karl Holmqvist, and Klaus Weber. More info.

The Soul (or, Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls) is the title of the Manifesta 7 exhibition in Trento, Italy. The exhibition is curated by Anselm Franke and Hila Peleg. In this episode we have a look at works by Luigi Ontani, Bernd Ribbeck, Pietro Roccasalva, Omer Fast, Klaus Weber, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Ria Pacqu e, and Marcus Coates. More info.